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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1940.

TERRORIST TO TRAIN ENVOYS

or.

FIRE (AND HITLER) GIVE CRAZY NIGHT

Hitler has got something to answer So the superintendent took the for. Ask anyone

in the quiet Suf- | engine out himself and drove as best folk market town of Framlingham. he could through the blacked-out London, Dec., 9.

streets. He arrived at the scene of Manfred von Killinger, one of the If it had not been for Hitler there the blaze, to find a second fire. This most sinister figures of Nazlem, has would have been no black-out, and time it waa a lorry, so the superin- had been no black-out, tendent had to quell that before start- been appointed to a special poaltion if there In the "Ribbentrop bureau," the Nazl scores of Framlingham folk would ing in solitude on the major opera- Party's private Foreign Office not be rubbing their shins and bath-tion.

after the most ganisation. His job is to "train"]ing their bruises

amusing chapter of accidents and the young Nazi diplomats.

church door was biggest commotion the town has ever being forced and at last the bells known.

Out of their beds tumbled the fremen, and with many a stumble they reached the station. They or- rived, but found their engine gone, so they went to the police station to find out what it was all about. There the policeman

told on duty

them where they could find the fire and the engine.

Killinger's history will throw some which light on the sort of training Hitler wants to give his young foreign representatives.

In the early hours someone noticed He was the first Nazi governor of a garage on fire in Badingham-road. Thuringia, later became a member | Posthaste went a police-constable to is how of the ominous People's Court and peal the church bells-that

the fire brigade in Consul-General | they summon that German after

his key in San Francisco.

Framlingham-but somehow More revealing is the fact that he would not fit the church door lock. through the is a self-confessed terrorist, and has His inspector, hurrying

darkness to his aid, tripped over the written a book

kerb and cut his head on his steel Stories Grave and Gay."

Then it was discovered that helmet.

door of the

had been

on

Meanwhile, the

rang.

The firemen "Putsch-Life:

His immediate subordinates were responsible for scores of murders in the lock pre-Hitler Germany; Foreign Mini-changed. ster Rathenau and Armistice signa- fory Erzberger were their two chief victims.

All the time, you must understand, the firemen were sleeping peacefully Killinger's present job is to

pro-in their beds. No bells, no fire is the duce skilled Nazi terrorists and spies order of things in Framlingham, but superintendent had been who can be sent to neutral countries | their

awakened. He went to the fire sta. in the guise of diplomats.

find his men, but fion expecting to

and in the fire station was deserted

Their task will be to organise the war-time Nazi spy activity and to establish contact with discontented Bedingham-road was a fire. elements In the countries to which they are accredited.

Before the war Killinger was credi- bly reported to have been called in by Hitler to advise him on assis- tance of the I.R.A. activities.

Killinger. Is an expert on Irish affairs. He was one of the reaction- ary German officers who engaged in gun-running between Germany and Iroland in the early twenties.

Now that Germany is at war with Britain, Killinger wants to make con- tact with the IR.A. and guide its anti-British outrages along lines use- ful to Germany.

His young diplomats are to help him with the job, and the Northern and the Balkan countries too are to see them.

LIBERAL_M.P.

& SOCIALISM

PASSPORT MYSTERY

Det.-Sergt. Bray, of Scotland Yard, stated at Bow-street that his depart- ment viewed with some suspicion the manner in which a passport was ob- tained by Mrs. Johanna Elly Simon, 40, a German opera singer, satying at Stanley.gardens, Bayswater. was ch d with possessing an irre- gular port.

She

Sergt. 3ray said that before the present war Mrs. Simon was given assistance to come to Britain by some person at an Embassy.

According to her own story, he went on, she wished to go to her hus- band in Canada and was anxious to obtain a passport without the endor- sement "J," signifying that she was

Jewess.

a

Two officials in the Berlin Minis-

were on

Sir Richard Acland, one of the best try of the Interior promised to assist known of the younger Liberal M.P.5, her. They were discovered and im- has circulated a statement to mem-prisoned. Gestapo officers bers of the House of Commons which their way to arrest her when another is in effect a demand for Socialism. opera singer, very much like her in His Party has taken no disciplin- appearance, gave her her own pas- Two ary action against him for this de- spor,t, with which she escaped. parture from classic Liberal policy. weeks after her arrival here she gave In fact, Sir Richard told the press herself up to the police on the advice that his statement is securing a wide of a solicitor. measure of support.

The magistrate, Mr. McKenna, re- in- The main conclusions advanced by manded Mrs. Simon for further Sir Richard are that the war has quiries. brought about the "death knell of pri-

vate capitalism," and that the move- ment towards monopoly control has wiped out "the little men of private enterprise" and interplay of free competition.

He cites the inequalities in the dis- tribution of wealth, and voices the view that if private profit la to con- tinue its toll upon Industry, the finan- ces of the nation will break down.

Thus Sir Richard reaches the view that the principle must be accepted that mere ownership of private pro- perty does not entitle a man to draw an income.

RUSSIAN SUPPORT Regarding the international situa- tion, Sir Richard repudiates the view that the Russian and German systems are the same thing. He points out that Soviet principles are based upon the fundamental conception of the rights of the working man, whatever his nationality, and urges that "we will receive Russia's practical support if it is known that we set out to achieve a society in which equality will not be made a mockery by the unearned incomes of the owners, and which will be based on an interna- Honal order in which the principle of National Sovereignty will be steadily circumscribed " -

walked to the fire, running was too risky; besides, by this time the streets were crowded with townsfolk, stumbling, tripping and inquiring what had happened.

The church bells are also a supple- Fram- mentary air rald warning in Ingham, so some ran into the streets,

while from a dozen bedroom win- dows black-out curtains were pulled aside and Invisible heads Inquired what was the cause of the commo- tion.

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Framlingham's fire brigade, as- sisted by about a half of Framling- ham's adult and child population, put out the fire. Then Framlingham went back to bed, and daylight found a town of limping men.

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FOR

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